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This invention describes a means to export a video game character from its traditional game console or PC environment to other platforms, including mobile gaming platforms. While using the character on the additional platforms, the user can further develop the character (including character enhancements not available on the traditional gaming console) and these character enhancements can be used when the character is imported back onto the traditional gaming console. This invention in effect expands the scope under which a video game character can exist, while retaining and enhancing its attributes between various platforms.
Current video game consoles (e.g., XBOX, Sony Playstation 2, etc.) or PC platforms do not allow the export of video game characters - the game can only be saved in the current platform's format. If a game is being played on a gaming console or PC, the particular point in the game can be saved on a memory stick or hard drive and loaded on another similar gaming console or PC that has the same gaming software and play can be continued from the same point in the game. The limitations of the above feature are that 1) it only allows the saving of a particular point in the game, not the character itself, and 2) only similar platforms with the same software can load and use the saved game (e.g., the saved game can be used on two XBOX platforms as long as the same game software is available on both).
The individual character within the game cannot be exported to another platform and any kind of export to a different kind of gaming environment is not possible. This invention proposes a method to export any character within a video game to other kinds of platforms. An important aspect of this invention is that any changes made in the attributes associated with the character while playing with the character on other platforms is retained and the possibly enhanced character attributes can later be imported back into the original gaming platform. With this approach the character attributes of any character within a video game can be used and enhanced independent of the platform and the game environment. The changes thus made to the attributes of the character would subsequently be retained on all the platforms and game environments.

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Exporting and
Developing Game Characters Across Gaming Platforms

This invention describes a means to export a video game
character from its traditional game console or PC environment to other
platforms, including mobile gaming platforms. While using the character on the
additional platforms, the user can further develop the character (including
character enhancements not available on the traditional gaming console) and
these character enhancements can be used when the character is imported back
onto the traditional gaming console.
This invention in effect expands the scope under which a video game
character can exist, while retaining and enhancing its attributes between
various platforms.

Current video game consoles (e.g., XBOX, Sony Playstation 2,
etc.) or PC platforms do not allow the export of video game characters - the
game can only be saved in the current platform’s format. If a game is being
played on a gaming console or PC, the particular point in the game can be saved
on a memory stick or hard drive and loaded on another similar gaming console or
PC that has the same gaming software and play can be continued from the same
point in the game. The limitations of the above feature are that 1) it only
allows the saving of a particular point in the game, not the character itself,
and 2) only similar platforms with the same software can load and use the saved
game (e.g., the saved game can be used on two XBOX platforms as long as the
same game software is available on both).

The individual character within the game cannot be exported
to another platform and any kind of export to a different kind of gaming
environment is not possible. This invention proposes a method to export any
character within a video game to other kinds of platforms. An important aspect of this invention is
that any changes made in the attributes associated with the character while
playing with the character on other platforms is retained and the possibly
enhanced character attributes can later be imported back into the original gaming
platform. With this approach the character attributes of any character within a
video game can be used and enhanced independent of the platform and the game
environment. The changes thus made to the attributes of the character would
subsequently be retained on all the platforms and game environments.

As mentioned above, current systems only allow a game to be
saved and accessed on the same platform (e.g., two XBOX consoles) and both
platforms must have the same software.

In order to aid understanding, it is important to realize
the distinction between saving a game and exporting a character. Current systems only allow a user to save a
game. This means that the file is in a format
that is only readable by the platform that saves it. Also, saving a game creates a file that has data such as
character attributes, settings and options for the gaming platform (e.g.,
background color, music on or off, etc).
For example, a character attribute m...